High resolution mapping of expression QTLs in heterogeneous stock mice in multiple tissues

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1133-1140

  Huang, Guo Jen ^a   Shifman, Sagiv ^a,b   Valdar, William ^a   Johannesson, Martina ^a   Yalcin, Binnaz ^a   Taylor, Martin S ^a,c   Taylor, Jennifer M ^a   Mott, Richard ^a   Flint, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIVER; LUNG; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIVER; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 66449134529     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.088120.108     Document Type: Article

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